"Sister! You're finally back! Hua Xiao bullied me!"

Turning back, they saw the two people at Hua Shi's house and were both stunned.

Hua Li, who was the first to react, threw away the small hoe in his hand, stood up, hummed in a crooked way, ran towards Hua Shi, and shouted something as if complaining.

Hua Xiao was stunned for a moment. When she heard Hua Li's words, she didn't quite understand what they meant.

Then he reacted, laughed coldly, stood up, put his hands on his hips, and said with disdain: "What do you mean I'm bullying you? It's obviously you're a scoundrel with a rough tongue, and you can't even argue with me!"

Hua Li, who had already run most of the way out, stopped in his tracks when he heard these provocative words and stopped running towards Hua Shi.

Instead, he stood there, imitating Hua Xiao's behavior with a snort, his hands on his hips, and retorted unconvincedly: "When did I become a scoundrel?"

Hua Xiao didn't tolerate him and immediately pointed at him and said, "You still say you don't have it, but you just acted like a scoundrel!"

Once these two started arguing, it wouldn't stop. After just a few words, they started arguing again.

You and I are arguing with each other, and neither of us is convinced.

But from the childish conversation, it can be heard that Hua Xiao's lip and tongue skills are obviously more powerful, and Hua Li is obviously less skilled in speaking and cannot beat Hua Xiao.

Hua Shi stood not far away, listening to the two people talking one by one. She didn't think it was noisy, but rather interesting.

This is the right way it is now. Children should behave like children. Being noisy is not a kind of happiness.

Before, perhaps because their lives were too depressing, I rarely heard them bickering or quarreling...

It is naturally a good thing to accept the news of the death of the three Li family members, gradually open your heart and move on, and forget the past.

Hearing that the two were just arguing and bickering, and did not seem to be really angry, Hua Shi had no intention of speaking out to stop them.

Suddenly, a small hand tugged at the bottom of the hanging sleeve.

Hua Shi came to his senses and looked down.

Little Huaying had walked up to her in small steps at some point, looking up at her with her dirty little face and big eyes.

The little guy's reaction was much slower. Before he could even open his mouth to speak, Hua Shi guessed what he was going to say next...

"Hungry?"

When these two precise words were asked, Xiao Huaying's eyes lit up, and her tense little face nodded seriously and earnestly.

Then he said slowly, "I'm hungry."

"Okay, I just happened to bring back some good food. I'll give you a big meal tonight."

Hua Shi clapped his hands and said.

When Xiao Huaying understood the word "big meal", her eyes suddenly brightened up, becoming round and sparkling, as if there were stars hidden in her pupils.

The duo who were arguing in the back also heard Hua Shi's words about making a big meal. They blinked curiously, looked over, and stopped arguing.

Hua Shi: "Okay, pack up and let's go back first. Thank you for your hard work today..."

Hua Li had already trotted over. When he heard Hua Shi's words, his eyes lit up and he said modestly, "It's not hard, it's not hard..."

Looking at Hua Li's happy back, Hua Xiao curled his lips and hummed softly.

…

The red glow of the setting sun reflected each other, layer upon layer, and fell on the thatched roofs of different heights, making the dark yellow thatched houses look like they were glowing...

Hua Shi kept his promise and said he would make a big meal.

There happened to be half a piece of roe deer meat left over from yesterday, so she cut it all into pieces, poured homemade sauce on it, licked a chili pepper, mixed it all together, poured it into the pot, and cooked it until it was soft. The rich aroma of the meat drifted far away through the wall.

She fried three of the eight fish she brought back from the mountains and put the rest in a wooden basin to cook next time.

As for the river crabs that the mountain spirit had given her, there were quite a few, and Xie Mingchi gave them all to her, not taking any away himself...

Hua Li trotted into the kitchen carrying a basket of river crabs. She sniffed the aroma of meat in the air and her saliva began to water.

He placed the basket of river crabs on the side of the stove, looked up curiously at the flowers, and asked, "Can this be eaten?"

He pointed at the river crabs in the basket with his little hand, staring with puzzled eyes.

There are a lot of these river crabs in the streams in the village, but they are not as big as these, but smaller.

He had heard from villagers that these river crabs were fed to chickens, and sometimes the fishy smell was so strong that even the chickens wouldn't eat them.

Uh... he remembered that he seemed to have eaten it before. He was very hungry at that time, so he also touched two from the edge of the stream, roasted them casually over the fire, and stuffed them into his mouth.

The shell was very hard, and after a lot of effort I bit through it, the meat inside was exposed. When I put it in my mouth, it tasted all stinky and fishy. And those sharp claws could easily prick my mouth...

In short, thinking back to what happened before, Hua Li's face became more and more hesitant, staring at Hua Shi's profile without blinking, waiting for her to respond to him.

Or maybe… it’s not meant to be eaten, but just chopped up and fed to the hens in the backyard chicken coop, so they can eat it and place an order…

In just a short moment, Hua Li had already thought of a bunch of random things.

Hua Shi took a moment to glance at the river crabs in the basket, nodded, and gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, they are edible. You'll know when they are cooked."

Hua Xiao, who was squatting by the stove and lighting the fire, had been listening with her ears perked up from the beginning. She also heard Hua Li's question. She was also very curious, so she waited for Hua Shi to respond.

When Hua Xiao heard Hua Shi say that the river crab was edible, his eyes suddenly widened and he turned to look at Hua Shi.

Hua Li was also stunned, seemingly unable to believe it, and then asked again, "But...but aren't river crabs all fishy? They don't taste good, do they?"

Just because something is edible doesn't mean it's delicious...

Hua Shi patted his chest and said as if guaranteeing something: "Don't worry, it will definitely be delicious. I won't lie to you."

This river crab was not the kind she knew. It was the small kind that grew in the river. Its body size was comparable to that of a hairy crab. Just looking at the two big hairy crabs, she knew how thick the meat under the shell was.

I don’t know where those mountain elves caught these crabs. Each one is bigger than the other, and they brought a lot of them.

Just by looking at their appearance and size, she was absolutely sure that these crabs would be delicious once cooked!

You know, before this, she was also a seafood lover, lobster, crab, abalone... her favorites...

If only there was seafood here...

Thinking of seafood, Hua Shi remembered what the blacksmith had mentioned before - the salt lake.

I wonder if there's any saltwater...something like seafood in here.

She actually wanted to go to the so-called salt lake in person to see it.

When I have time, I'll call Xie Mingchi and go take a look together...